Sunny Deol Joins BJP, Likely To Contest The Lok Sabha 2019 Elections From Gurdaspur Or Chandigarh
Sunny Deol joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Railway Minister Piyush Goyal. He had met BJP president Amit Shah at Pune briefly last wee
Sunny
Deol
becomes
brand
new
leader
of
BJP
|
FilmiBeat
Bollywood
actor
Sunny
Deol
joined
the
Bharatiya
Janata
Party
(BJP)
here
on
Tuesday
in
the
presence
of
Defence
Minister
Nirmala
Sitharaman
and
Railway
Minister
Piyush
Goyal.
Sunny
Deol
met
BJP
president
Amit
Shah
at
Pune
airport
briefly
last
week.
"The
way
my
father
(Dharmendra)
was
attached
with
Atalji,
today
I
have
come
to
join
Modiji,"
said
Sunny
Deol.
"Whatever
I
can
do
for
this
family
(BJP)
I
will
do
it.
I
won't
talk,
I
will
show
you
through
my
work," he
added.
The
party
is
likely
to
field
Sunny
Deol,
the
star
of
films
such
as
Ghayal
and
Damini,
from
either
Gurdaspur
or
Chandigarh
in
the
ongoing
Lok
Sabha
elecrtions,
according
to
sources.
The
late
Vinod
Khanna
had
earlier
represented
Gurdaspur
Lok
Sabha
seat
from
BJP.
Hema
Malini,
the
BJP
candidate
from
Mathura,
is
Sunny
Deol's
stepmother.
The
'dhai-kilo
ha
kaath'
actor
also
stated
during
a
press
conference
that
he
"Wants
PM
Modi
for
the
next
5
years."
Defence
Minister
Nirmala
Sitharaman,
referred
to
his
blockbuster
movie
Border
and
said,
"Sunny
Deol
made
the
film
Border
which
showed
how
the
feeling
of
nationalism
and
patriotism
when
portrayed
beautifully
on
film
can
touch
a
cord
with
the
people," and
also
Union
Minister
Piysh
Goyal
stated
that
"It
cannot
be
acting
when
it
comes
from
the
heart.''
The
Lok
Sabha
2019
elections
is
currently
ongoing
and
the
results
will
be
out
on
May
23,
2019.